(b)logophile

Here’s a nice setup. John Holbo and Belle Waring write a book about Plato: translations by Waring, commentary and illustrations by Holbo.1 They reserve e-publishing rights, so as well as the whole ink-and-paper business they can put it online, where you can read it in the surprisingly functional flash interface at issuu.com. You can download [...]

I’d like to celebrate read-an-ebook week with something positive, but I don’t have anything even half-prepared except some thoughts about DRM. That’s bad enough, but I won’t even be arguing against DRM for ebooks. I certainly won’t argue for it — I’m against the idea on principle, so if I thought it through and concluded [...]

Oh boy. This started as a small exercise in venting and turned into a full-scale rant. At this point I don’t even know if there’s any content left to it except “Grr, big publishers only sell ebooks in formats I don’t want.” It would be a shame to waste all that typing though, so here [...]